CLD offers a number of services for business of all sizes. Whether your business is a small non-profit organization or a global organization, we have services to meet the needs of your strategic objectives and organizational culture. Our seven primary service lines include:

• Coaching
• Emerging Leaders Programs
• Customized Leadership Development Training & Seminars
• The Creation of Customized Leadership Development Programs
• Evaluation of Leadership Development Programming
• Speaking Engagements
• Organization Specific Publications

Contact us for more information on fees and services – they vary with the size and scope of the project. The first hour of discussion is on us, so take a look at our services and let us know how we can help (scott@cldmail.com or 216.224.7072).

Leadership Development Coaching

Like any skill or competency, developing one’s leadership capacity is a lifelong endeavor. The Center for Leader Development offers a wide range of coaching opportunities for:

1. Organization Managers/Executives – Organization managers & executives are required to be at the top of their game and one-on-one coaching is one way to continue on a path of development and growth. At the executive level, the stakes are too high for ineffective habits and practices to get in the way of personal and organizational success.

2. Emerging Leaders in Organizations – Emerging leaders are the future of your organization. They are the people who will elevate your organization to the next level in the future. An investment now will pay off in the long run as these individuals have time and energy to develop, grow and try on new hats as they work their way up in your organization.

3. Internal Consultants – Let’s face it, no one knows it all. Internal and external consultants alike have an opportunity to hone and develop their skills as they help organizations create leadership development systems. This coaching model focuses on helping consultants better assist their clients and develop systems of leadership development that will keep clients coming back for more.

4. HR Generalists – Much is required of an HR generalist. One-on-one coaching sessions will help create a leadership development initiative linked to the organizational culture, aligned with the strategic direction and filled with the appropriate learning opportunities. Like any other talent, the creation of leadership development initiatives takes careful consideration and patience.

Emerging Leaders Programs

Emerging leaders, though often overlooked in organizations, are the future of your organization. CLD offers a unique variety of support resources and services for an organization hoping to build leadership capacity among emerging leaders. If cultivated at an early stage of their career, emerging leaders can add enormous value to the organization’s bottom line – especially when challenged to develop and grow as leaders.

The Center for Leader Development offers the following:

• Custom designed leadership training and education
• Customized emerging leader programs for your organization
• Individual coaching for emerging leaders
• Evaluation of current emerging leaders programming

Customized Leadership Development Training & Seminars

Whether working with a group of seasoned executives or emerging leaders, CLD will customize training and development programming to best meet your objectives. We have the knowledge, skills and abilities to customize curriculum for programming of 30 minutes to six days. Our curriculum design style is filled with rich content and we use a number of learning methodologies to develop the capacities of participants. Whatever your needs, we will work with you to develop interactive programming that is engaging, fun and educational. Most importantly, we will do so in a manner that will yield results. Below is a sample list events we have conducted…

• Retreat
• Conference tracks or pathways
• Conference sessions/panels/workshops
• On-going (continuous) education
• In-house education and training
• Leadership skill building
• e-learning modules
• Executive/Emerging Leader roundtables or book clubs
• Leadership development planning (personal development planning)

The Creation of Customized Leadership Development Programs

Scott will work with you to develop a unique, customized leadership development program that meets the needs of your clients, customers, team or members. We have a passion for leadership development and the solutions we develop will fit the needs of your organizational culture and strategic goals. By doing so, we deliver a product that is more personalized and comprehensive than other products in the marketplace. We have all seen (and felt) what happens when a “cookie-cutter” solution is introduced into the culture. We are not interested in a cookie-cutter approach…

Evaluation of Leadership Development Programming

Already have a leadership development initiative or process in place? Wondering how it is working or how it could be improved? CLD has a customized format for the evaluation of leadership development that we created ourselves through years of study. The process is called “user-focused theory of action” or UFTA for short. We work with you to make explicit all of your inputs, implementation strategies, and the desired results for individuals and the organization. We then help you examine the assumptions or “logic gaps” in the process. Doing so allows us the opportunity to examine weak links, potential gaps and areas of concern.

Next, we work with you to develop a customized plan of action to help you evaluate program impact, next steps, and potential areas for development. Why spend, hundreds, thousands or even millions of dollars on solutions that do not work? Contact CLD to find out how we can help you increase your return on investment, better support those in leadership positions and help you design programming that moves your organization forward. Every system is perfectly designed to achieve the results it does. Are you happy and content with your results?

Speaking Engagements

We are passionate about leadership development and love to discuss all aspects of the topic. Scott is available for speaking engagements – whether it is sitting on a panel, facilitating a discussion, conducting a workshop or serving as a keynote. Because of our unique vantage point, we are prepared to speak on any number of topics as they relate to leadership and leadership development. Topics may include but are not limited to:

• New paradigms in leadership
• Linking leadership development to organizational culture
• Linking leadership development to business strategy and org. culture
• Don’t be that person! Insights into “Bad” leadership
• Leader and Manager – Are you both?

Organization Specific Publications

The Center for Leader Development Press provides an avenue for those writing about leadership development. CLD Press offers the following services:

• Customized publications (manuals, articles, booklets) for your association, organization, intranet or business.
• Applying content found on this web site to suit your organizational needs.